Price$156.67 – $854.99
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Sorcery
LegalGame Changer Salt 1.35Rank #505
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Why is this card good?
Imperial Seal is Vampiric Tutor's slightly-worse twin: same one-mana, two-life, any-card tutor to the top of your library, but at sorcery speed instead of instant. That single restriction is the whole story — you can't respond to threats, fish for a combo piece on your opponent's turn, or hold up interaction. You're committing on your own turn.
It belongs in the same decks that run Demonic/Vampiric Tutor: high-powered combo and competitive builds that want maximum tutor density to assemble specific two-card kills (think Najeela, Kenrith, Tymna/Thrasios, cEDH staples). When you only care about finding the next piece and crashing the game, the instant-speed premium matters less.
Don't play it in casual or mid-power tables — it's a Game Changer for a reason, accelerates oppressive starts, and feels bad in fair decks. Also skip it if you don't have enough strong tutor targets; tutoring to "draw" a random card next turn is a slow, expensive cantrip. Run Vampiric Tutor first; this is the redundancy card.
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Printings (5)
Combos (1)
- Deceiver of Form + Biovisionary + Imperial Seal
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